I can't describe the film, since the publicists weren't too keen for me to see it suffice to say it has an interesting cast including Saoirse Ronan and William Hurt, and an interesting director, too, in Andrew Niccol, who directed and wrote Gattaca and also wrote The Truman Show. The film she is promoting, The Host, is based on a book she published in 2008, which also topped the bestseller lists. There's a reason my books have a lot of innocence. I don't even read traditional romance." Why not? "It's too smutty. She doesn't wish James ill at all, she says, but "it's so not my genre. When I ask Meyer whether she's read Fifty Shades, she quickly, emphatically, says no.
They have also inspired another colossally successful series EL James has said her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, about a young woman who falls for a sexual sadist, began as Twilight fan fiction.
In 2008 the novels occupied the top four places on the USA Today roundup of the year's bestsellers. That story became Twilight, the first of four books in a saga that has sold more than 100m copies, been translated into 37 languages, spawned a bogglingly successful film franchise, a much-discussed relationship between the film's young stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, and a flood of visitors to the small town of Forks, Washington, where the series is set. A modest woman, a committed Mormon, she loved books, had always conjured up stories, but had previously thought the idea of writing anything herself would be presumptuous. It was the first story she had ever put to paper. Meyer wanted to remember the story, but was struggling with her small sons' relentless needs, so began writing it down for safe keeping. The specific problem was that if they became too close – if they gave in to the girl's intense desires – he'd hurt and potentially kill her.
Almost 10 years ago, as a young mother in Arizona, she had a dream about an average teenage girl and a beautiful male vampire, sitting in a meadow, lost in conversation about the difficulties of their relationship. Stephenie Meyer's subconscious has a lot to answer for.
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